[Phsstpok]

Fact was, the Vietnamese communists were brutal, sadistic, and ruthless. They were not the equivalent of the Massachusetts minutemen trying to keep King George from their cannons. But that is how the then DBM and leftists portrayed it. Hell, even I believed so back then.

The Vietnamese could still be free today if we had stuck it out.

This is why I've wanted to cry out every time someone on our side has said "Iraq is not Vietnam."  That's the wrong formulation.  It should be "we won't allow the traitors in the Democrat party to betray these people and our country the way they did in Vietnam!"

They don't know the meaning of "Swiftboating" if we can get that argument started.  There's 35 years of suppressed rage at them built up among millions of people.  Jane Fonda and John Kerry better have a place to hide if we ever get that going as the question.  And that doesn't even speak of the Vietnamese, Cambodians and others who have real grievances against them.

[OldFriend]

Not that long ago, Leahy bragged that his was the final vote that cut off funding for the Viet Nam war.

I wanted to cry, just listening to him brag.